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14 November 2006
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Today's quotes
"Keys to success... Research your idea, Plan for success,
Expect success, & just plain do it! It amazes me how many
people skip the last step! Practice being a "doer" and
success will follow you every step of the way!" -- Josh S.Hinds
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in
other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people
interested in you." -- Dale Carnegie
Feature Article
'Social Bookmarking' As An Aggressive and Acceptable Blog
Marketing Tactic By: Greg White Social bookmarking
websites are becoming more and more popular. They allow you
to save bookmarks online and Tag/Categorize them with
keywords instead of saving them as bookmarks in the
favorite's list of your browser. This is particularly useful
when your browser based bookmarks have become unwieldy. It's
also help since you can access your bookmarks from any
computer where you have an internet connection.
I have compiled a list of Social Bookmarking websites from a
number of sources. You can find it in the resource box at
the end of this article.
Once you have bookmarked them, you can view them, sort them
by category/keyword as well as see links from others that
have been categorized like yours.
You also establish RSS feeds for each category (tag) that
you 'subscribe' to. This alerts you to new links in your
areas of interest. Your bookmark collection/RSS Feed becomes
viewable to others who can also copy your bookmarks to their
own collection. So now you can aggressively promote your RSS
feed to the RSS Directories and Search engines, syndicate
them and make them available to a much wider audience.
Social bookmarking sites also help you to meet other people
who are interested in the same topics you are and who may
also have knowledge of web resources that you don't.
On Social Bookmarking sites, you first create an account.
Then you bookmark interesting and useful things in the area
of your interest or expertise. By doing so you create a
useful Feed. Once you've done that you intermittently, (or
aggressively), add useful and interesting items, (that could
use additional exposure), from your own content. Make an
honest effort to contribute USEFUL information and links.
This is all about sharing and exposure. Done properly, you
can be as aggressive as you want to be about sharing
information. You can share your blog(s), links to your
informational/resource sites etc. Think about the fact that
when you share links to other's resources, you're also
effectively promoting their content as well.
This is a way you can aggressively and ethically promote
your content and the content of others. I personally have
hundreds of gigabytes of my own information and information
of others, connected to my notebook. In the final analysis,
it's doing me no good what-so-ever just sitting there. But
by organizing it, online, I can help myself, (getting
organized, getting my content exposed, etc.) and help others
at the same time.
If you spice up your feed with too much sales and marketing
related or self promotional stuff, people can and will
easily drop their subscription to your feed. And instead of
gaining good will and doing a service to the internet
community you could get labeled as a spammer and suffer the
consequences.
So while being aggressive is possible and acceptable, being
careful to consider the best interest of the community is
certainly warranted.
Balancing being ethical and providing a useful service to
others with promoting your own content enables you to be as
aggressive as you like. But remember, in the final analysis,
others will make the decision on whether it's ethical and
useful or spam.
About the Author: Greg White, Internet Marketer, Author,
and Proj Mgr has run successful web projects since 2001.
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